The goal of the Fife School District is to graduate 100% of our students each year.  We are very proud to report that this past June we graduated 99.5% of all Fife High School seniors.  This is outstanding news and validates the hard work our teachers have done to identify the concepts our students are finding the toughest to tackle and redesigning work that will engage them in these tasks.  It is also a representation of the amazing efforts our students demonstrate each day.

Despite this overwhelming success rate, our Adequate Yearly Progress (AYP) results show us that we have a few demographics to continue to concentrate our efforts towards.

• English Language Learners (ELL)
• Special Education students
• Low income students

Here is what we are planning to either implement or continue doing to address the specific needs of these students:

• Implement a new core reading curriculum in kindergarten-fifth grade.  This curriculum has a specific strand of strategies to use with ELL and Special Education students.
• Continued professional development for all staff around best practices in teaching ELL students.
• Continue district design academies.  These Working on the Work academies take teachers through a specific design template to create engaging work around tough to teach and/or difficult to learn concepts.  These are the specific concepts our testing results show us our kids are struggling with.
• Our interventionist team meets together regularly to ensure that all kids in the district receive the same quality support in reading, writing, and mathematics.

Click here to read Dr. Terry Bergeson's, Washington State School Superintendent, comments on AYP